Sawt Falasteen - 'Tootsie' star Teri Garr dies aged 79

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'Tootsie' star Teri Garr dies aged 79 / Photo: FREDERICK M. BROWN - Getty Images North America/Getty Images/AFP/File

'Tootsie' star Teri Garr dies aged 79

CULTURE 29.10.2024

Teri Garr, nominated for a best supporting actress Oscar for her role in the 1982 hit film "Tootsie," died Tuesday in Los Angeles, her publicist said.

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Garr, 79, passed away after a decades-long battle with multiple sclerosis, Heidi Schaeffer told AFP.

A comedic actress and singer, Garr also co-starred in "Young Frankenstein" and "Close Encounters of the Third Kind."

Multiple sclerosis is a chronic auto-immune inflammatory disease of the central nervous system, its symptoms characterized by muscle weakness and blurred vision.

The disease afflicts about twice as many women as men -- typically between the ages of 20 and 40.

Garr revealed she had been diagnosed with multiple sclerosis in 2002, after having suffered symptoms for the previous two decades.

She was a "fierce advocate for MS awareness," said Schaeffer.

Garr "passed away peacefully, surrounded by family and friends," the publicist added.

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Sawt Falasteen - 'Tootsie' star Teri Garr dies aged 79

'Tootsie' star Teri Garr dies aged 79

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